Mozilla Firefox 3 .1 Beta 2 Released

Monday December 8th, 2008

Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 has been released. This milestone is a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. New features include a private browsing mode, new functions that make it easy to remove specific portions of web history, a new javascript engine enabled by default, and several other developer features.

Due to the apparent need to implement optional extensions as mainstream Firefox options at the cost of Firefox's original goal of being customizable if anyone wants to get the new tab button back they will need to support the following bug...
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.…rg/show_bug.cgi?id=457187>

Probably this is expected to be a feature, but for me it is a severe bug.
I'm using a touchpad with extra mouse buutons.
Very often when I click on a tab to show it, it gets ripped off to a newly opened window... probably due to little movements of my finger on the touchpad while clicking with another one, or even due to a mechnical bug in the touchpad itself, because it also often happens that the cursor jumps when I'm clicking. While this is annoying more than enough, the new feature in Firefox makes it a lot worse, to a point that I will switch to another browser - after many happy years of using Netscape 2.x?, 3.x, 4.x, Moz <1.0+, Ff1.0+ - if this cannot be turned off. I looked up about:config all options containing tab or window, but didin't find anything relevant.